And wait until the nightingale grows dumber,

Listening debates not very wise or witty,

Ere patriots their true country can remember;—

But there's no shooting (save grouse) till September.

XLIX.

I've done with my tirade. The World was gone;

The twice two thousand, for whom Earth was made,

Were vanished to be what they call alone—

That is, with thirty servants for parade,

As many guests, or more; before whom groan